Keep sacrifice alive

Northumberland News

To the editor:

"Should theirs be the end of sacrifice?"

As Nov. 11 recedes into the past, so too does the use of the word sacrifice.

Those who served sacrificed much, if not at the recruiting office, then at least on the battlefield. Jobs, careers, marriages, broken bodies and mental health, and too often, death. They took the risk not for their personal gain or aggrandizement, but for a better future world for all.

If they sacrificed for the future we now enjoy, are we not morally obligated to honour them by sacrificing for the future that will follow us? Are we not obliged to face head on, with all the energy, honesty and resources we can muster, the issues that will severely affect future generations?

Correcting economic and social injustice, the unrestricted international flow of the instruments of war, malnutrition, climate change, will take bold leadership and giving up a portion of our exaggerated and disproportionate wealth. That's a sacrifice I can live with. They often died by theirs. Our duty is to keep the word sacrifice alive.